Re: Draw on root window

[Andy Robertson <critter_75075 yahoo com>]

I second the request for GDK_ROOT_PARENT.  The concept
of scripting screen savers in Perl has intriqued me
for a while :)  Perhaps a screensaver that scrolls
news updates?  Or, one that gives you system
information?  Or, simply has an amalgamation of data
that you find important.  I would love to see a
screensaver that polls the various last refreshed http
headers for web comics I read :)
    andy

--- Magnus Schmidt <yog post1 com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>  I'm fairly new to gtk-perl, and I stumbled over a
> problem where I could not 
> find any answers in the archives or the net.
>
> For a xscreensaver-hack I need to draw onto the X
> root window, but I do not 
> know how to do this. I've found some hints to call
> GDK_ROOT_PARENT() but I 
> wasn't able to find this Macro in the perl bindings.
> Is this somehow possible 
> with perlgtk ?
>
> I first tried to use a 'popup' window (I know, it is
> not supposed for this), 
> but then I didn't receive any keyboard-events any
> more. On another try I 
> wasn't able to get the correct call for
> gdk_window_set_decorations(...) ?!
>
> Thanks,
> Magnus
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